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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Cursed
Despair
Sleep
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Daytime

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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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